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BSTRACT The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, has been called a revolutionary piece of legislation. It has changed, and is still changing the traditional ways of governmental decision-making. NEPA has strongly influenced the field of water resources management. An environmental statement can now be seen not as a document to support or justify a plan, but an objective assessment of what environmental costs and benefits are involved. New York State has seized upon NEPA as an important feature of its environmental quality management programs and has used the opportunity to comment upon draft environmental statements under NEPA to increase its influences upon Federal decision-making. The Department of Environmental Conservation coordinates and synthesizes all comments and provides one unified State response on a statement. At the State level, lacking a comprehensive 'little NEPA', an extensive environmental analysis program has been built by utilizing a wide spectrum of Federal and State Laws and administrative regulations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Echograms of the dorsal surface of the tongue in the midsagittal plane and in coronal oblique planes are presented. Comparisons are made among tongue height measurements obtained from the transverse and longitudinal echograms and from lateral head x rays. It is concluded that ultrasonic scanning can provide information on the shape of the dorsal surface of the tongue during sustained utterances and in the articulatory rest position. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]